#3170: Service Outage

XKCD comic, described below.
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[A graph of "Productivity when a major internet service goes down" over time]

[The productivity line starts at average. A point in time is labelled 'outage begins']

[After that, the line splits into two lines: one labelled "People whose work relies on the service". It goes down over time.]

[The second line is labelled "People whose work doesn't rely on the service". It jumps a little and stays roughly constant after.]

[The second line is illustrated by Cueball seated at a desk, using a laptop computer. A thought bubble says: "Aw man, the outage took down the Star Wars Legends wiki."]


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:Now, if it were the *Canon* wiki, it's possible to imagine someone with a productivity-related reason for consulting it, but no one's job requires them to read that much about Admiral Daala.


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